idly wonder
Frequency: 7.212.7 per million words
to think about something in a casual, unfocused way
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Examples (10)
- I often idly wonder about the lives of strangers I see on the street.
- She would sometimes idly wonder what her life would have been like if she had taken a different path.
- He found himself idly wondering about the origins of the old building.
- We used to idly wonder what the future held for us.
- Sitting by the window, I idly wondered where all the birds were flying.
- Don't just idly wonder; take action to find the answers.
- One can idly wonder for hours about various philosophical questions.
- As the train passed by, he couldn't help but idly wonder about its destination.
- The child would idly wonder about the shapes of the clouds in the sky.
- Sometimes, it's nice to just idly wonder without needing to find a definitive answer.